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Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Seedship
An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
John Ayliff
Strategy
Play in browser
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Terminal City
The Text Parser Adventure where you CAN'T STOP MOVING.
PowerhoofVerified Account
Adventure
alt_tarot
an unnaturally augmented tarot deck in twine
blake stone / fenced forest
Play in browser
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
Snowbound Blood
A Vast Error Story
DECONRECONSTRUCTION
Visual Novel
Joestar ☆ Struck
Get Joestar Struck
TeamScallywag
Visual Novel
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Tom McHenry
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Interactive Fiction
The Writer Will Do Something
You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.
Matthew Seiji Burns
Play in browser
Worldsmith
An intergalactic Interactive Fable
Interactive Fables
Adventure
A Witch's Word
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
RainbowStarbird
Simulation
Play in browser
GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
Play in browser
The Forest of Candles (And The Man With A Lighter)
An interactive fiction game about fire season.
Nessa Cannon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Little Antifa Novel
A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration
Mauro Vanetti
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Visual Novel
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
The Saint's Tomb
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Sayeth
Role Playing
Play in browser
POM SIMULATOR 9000
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
d Marie
Simulation
Bury me, my Love
Bury me my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a journey to safety.
Dear Villagers
Interactive Fiction
Something A Little Super
Raise a super powered kid.
Barbara Truelove
Interactive Fiction
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
Turn Out the Lights
A short game about coming home again.
bijan
Adventure
Lab Assistant
Teach slime to do science in this machine-learning based puzzle game!
Izzy Fiacco
Puzzle
There's A Bear Outside
Isn't it nice that there is a perfectly normal bear at the window?
The Very Worst Thing
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Nightland
A board & video game for Commodore
Alessio Scanderebech
Adventure
c ya laterrrr
a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories
danhett
Play in browser
nightbloom
exobotanical horror
aerialshading
Visual Novel
Siren for Hire
How a superheroine earns a living wage
Maddy Myers
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A Skull
A surreal visual novel built on old bones and entropy
Alpha Chrome Yayo
Interactive Fiction
Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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